Metaphors in psychotherapy: expression of the conflict in the relationship between a mother and son in psychosis. The present article explores the occurrence of metaphors in the context of psychotherapeutic care of psychoanalytic orientation of the mother of a psychotic adolescent. One of the patient's main conflicts was her inability to differentiate from her son. It was identified how the metaphors expressed by this patient in the beginning of the process shifted as the treatment progressed and how the relationship between mother and son was impacted by this transformation. This process contributed to a rearranged psyche for the patient and even allowed the disruption of the family's rigidly established dynamics.
Metaphor; psychosis; psychotherapy
